Test 12 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

one roastie left, im having it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: leave, have · To what, where: one roastie, roastie

This is test 12 of lesson 127 «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 roastie	nummod
2	roastie	roastie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 roastie	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 im	punct
5	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roastie	conj
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 im	csubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		one roastie not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	gerund		roastie					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cut it in two and eat both halves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cut	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Cut	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	conj
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 halves	det
8	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	it		two			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here	both halves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

Option 2

Grab it quick before anyone sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	quick	quick	ADV	_	1 Grab	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 sees	mark
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sees	nsubj
6	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Grab	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it				quick property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	see	present	anyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Take it with your fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fingers	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fingers	nmod:poss
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it				with your fingers	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Offer it to others before you take it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Offer	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 others	case
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Offer	obl
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Offer	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here	it				to others goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to other=Goal
2	take	present	you	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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